Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 155
"Well then," said the King, "let him read the psalter over my daughter three nights running."
Who acts: King, three nights · What happens: say, let, read, run · To what, where: King, psalter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, three nights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 psalter | det |
| 15 | psalter | psalter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 read | obj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 daughter | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 read | obl |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 nights | nummod |
| 20 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 read | obj |
| 21 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 nights | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | read in a quote | infinitive | King not said here | the psalter | night | over my daughter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalter=Topic | ||
| 4 | run in a quote | gerund | three nights not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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